Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Wait (The Whisper Song)

64 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 3
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 3 33 19 2/12/05 – 9/24/05
Billboard Hot 100 15 22 14 2/26/05 – 7/23/05
R&R Pop CHR 41 9 5 5/13/05 – 7/15/05

Billboard R&B Singles

33 weeks, 2/12/05 to 9/24/05. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

22 weeks, 2/26/05 to 7/23/05. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Pop CHR

9 weeks, 5/13/05 to 7/15/05. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Tallest is No. 1, and the height is scaled by how many places the chart ran to that week, so No. 30 on a top-30 is the floor and No. 30 on a top-50 is the middle. A green column is a bulleted week — on the airplay charts, airplay gained; on the Hot 100, among the week’s greatest airplay and sales gains — which is not the same as a rise, so a green column can sit lower than the one before it. Weeks at the peak carry their position in red. A run longer than the page scrolls sideways; no week is left out of the drawing.